Los Angeles County CA Archives Biographies.....Peveler, John J. 1859 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/cafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com January 2, 2006, 12:50 am Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908) JOHN J. PEVELER, resident of California since 1882, is a native of Illinois, born in the city of Chicago, January 12th, 1859. His father, George W. Peveler, was a farmer. He joined the United States Army as a volunteer in the Rebellion, went to the front and was killed at the battle of Antietam, September 17th, 1862, leaving a widow and an only child, the subject of this sketch. Young Peveler spent his youth in Chicago, attended the public schools and learned the carpenter trade, and later the cement contracting business. In 1896 Mr. Peveler went to Alaska, where he spent five years and passed through all the excitement and experienced the hardships of the gold seekers of Nome and Dawson. He returned to California in 1901, and for several years had charge of numerous jobs of construction cement work for the Los Angeles-Pacific Railway Company. Mr. Peveler married, in 1904, Miss Theresa Langam, a native of Litchfield, Minnesota. They have one daughter, Virginia C. The family residence is at the corner of Ninth street and Nevada avenue, Santa Monica. Additional Comments: Extracted from: Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County, 1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative people. Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ca/losangeles/bios/peveler238nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/cafiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb